Kevin De Liban

Kevin De Liban is the Founder and President of TechTonic Justice, a newly launched organization to fight alongside low-income people left behind by artificial intelligence (AI). Through multidimensional advocacy, TechTonic Justice supports marginalized communities and their advocates to secure the work, housing, schooling, public benefits, and family stability needed for a thriving life. 

 Kevin previously worked for more than 12 years at Legal Aid of Arkansas—most recently as its Director of Advocacy--where he represented over 1,800 low-income people in matters involving health care, workers' rights, public benefits, special education, and domestic violence. There, Kevin led campaigns at the cutting edge of anti-poverty advocacy: ending the state’s use of algorithms that cut the in-home care of elderly and disabled people, stopping Medicaid work reporting requirements that had stripped health insurance from 18,000 people in five months, and overcoming qualified immunity to hold state officials personally liable for violating constitutional rights.

n 2022, he co-founded the Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub with colleagues from Upturn and the National Health Law Program. This collaboration between public interest lawyers and technologists fights the harmful use of tech in public benefits.

Kevin regularly presents about imposing accountability on AI and consults with advocates, policymakers, and journalists in the U.S. and abroad. His work has appeared on or in the PBS Newshour, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, the Economist, the Verge, Bloomberg Businessweek, and many other outlets.

When not working, Kevin is enjoying the enchanting company of his wife and baby, reading, watching sci-fi or fantasy, or rapping.